At this point I believe that any one of the possibilities that the Democrats have for a nominee would not leave us in Iraq if they became our next President. Because the existing bipartisanship still has our soldiers as solidly in Iraq as they were last year at this time I still don’t claim to be Democrat and instead lay claim to being an Independent now. Bipartisanship has brought me lots and lots of tears and heartache and night terrors and lost sleep last year over military service that provided no safety for any of us on American soil and may have in actuality inspired and impassioned further acts of terrorism.
So while John Edwards has an Out Of Iraq plan very similar to the other Democratic candidates, he sports one thing that sets him apart for me and that is this portion of his Iraq plans.
Clarify the Lack of Legal Foundation for the War
The 2002 authorization did not give President Bush the power to use U.S. troops to police a civil war. Edwards believes that Congress should make it clear that President Bush exceeded his authority long ago. The president now needs to end the war and ask Congress for new authority to manage the withdrawal of the U.S. military presence and to help Iraq achieve stability.
Now we can all speculate all day long about how and why President Bush has used our troops to police a civil war he created but I’d like to stay with the facts and just acknowledge that he is and he did. And he did so without any oversight from anyone other than Laura for a hell of a long time. Now he does so with as precious little oversight as he can manage to dodge, finagle, threaten, beg, borrow and steal. And that shouldn’t ever happen to us ever again, I know it should never ever happen to our soldiers and their families ever again. It’s time for people to be accountable. After people are once again accountable for their actions I think I might be able to start making some nice.